The Edinburgh Fringe Archives – Mike Bubbins (Retrosexual Male, 2017)

The Edinburgh Fringe Show, with Ewan Spence

It’s Mike Bubbins’ turn to escape the archive. He’s a Welsh comic who has carved out a great little space in the scene as “the comic who does the seventies”. His fringe show forom 2017 is quintessential Bubbins, as he looks back at the seventies, what made it great, and what we can learn from it intoday’s world.

He’s continued that mix of cultural time travel in his 2021 TV series Mamoth, where he plays “Tony Mammoth, a Welsh PE teacher, missing presumed dead in an avalanche in the Alps in 1979 whose body is found and miraculously bought back to life in the modern day.”

Bubbins, who is returning to the Fringe eight years after his debut, covers all these routines well. The circuit’s certainly given him the imperative to deliver gags at tight intervals and with a confident, bulletproof delivery that sells each line to maximum effect.

Chortle.

But now, we always say we return to the Fringe, and here it’s a return to the Fringe of 2017, to return to the 70s, via The Assembly Rooms, and Mike Bubbins’ Retrosexual Male.

• Find out more from Mike Bubbins on his website, mikebubbins.com, or follow him on Twitter, @MikeBubbins.

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